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Japanese Animated Series
Full Metal Alchemist - A Hardcore Western Medieval Fantasy
Full Metal Alchemist is an anime with classic fantasy theme. It is set in a parallel universe where humans have mastered the science of alchemy. It can also be considered a science fiction as string theory talks of multiple dimensions and physical laws being different in worlds existing in other dimensions. So it is conceivable that in a universe with different physical laws, alchemy might be feasible. That is the premise this story is based on and the author has gone ahead and created this entire science making use of some popular associated myths such as that of the philosopher's stone that many of us may be familiar with from Harry Potter.
The story is set in the alternate universe's version of England of the nineteenth century. The protagonist is a young alchemist Edward Elric who has a prosthetic arm and leg and is accompanied by a sidekick who resembles a robot. As the story unfolds we come to know that the robot is actually his brother Alphonse and that the two brothers' condition is a result of Edward's failed attempt to use a forbidden transmutation to bring his dead mother back to life. He now seeks to reverse the damage he has inflicted on his brother and for that he needs the philosopher's stone, which gives the user ability to overcome the natural laws of alchemy. The whole story follows the adventures of the brothers in their quest for this philosopher's stone.
The story has three interesting set of antagonists each with their shades of grey. First is the State of Artemis, which has a military government headed by dictator. State Alchemists are an arm of the state military. Edwards Elric himself is a member of state military and has many friends there. However like any organization, it has all kinds of characters with different motives and the leadership have their own dubious schemes at work. Second is a character called Scar who has a serious grouse against State Alchemists for decimating his entire tribe. He is a powerful alchemist, who has styled himself as some kind of a hand of God, who goes out doling punishment to people who he considers evil – mostly errant alchemists. He also has plans running to destroy the entire State Alchemist organization. And finally the most interesting set of antagonists – the homunculi – humanoid creatures with mysterious origins and even more mysterious motives. There is a deep aura of darkness around them and evoke a deep sense of curiosity and dread in the reader like the charm a vampire holds on his victim.
The story is not black and white and we are treated to complex characters on either side with motives and prejudices shaped by the events in their past. Many of the adventures are interesting and we are treated to a myriad set of interesting people and events. As we go along the story we learn more about the science of alchemy, the state of Artemis, the philosopher's stone and the homunculi. This sense of discovery is something I really love in science fiction and fantasy.
As I talk about this series, I would like to mention one particular adventure that I found so disturbing that it remains with me vividly many years after I have watched this serial. Ed and Al encounter a cozy family of a State Alchemist, a widower with a sweet little daughter and a loyal dog. The man seems to be an intelligent researcher who is trying too hard at his job and a doting father. The girl just adores her father. The girl's mother has mysteriously disappeared ten years back – around the time when the alchemist has had his last success – creation of an intelligent talking parrot which suddenly became depressed and stopped talking. After that the military has been pressuring him to come up with other such creations and he has not been able to. The state's patience is running dry and the State Military has given him an ultimatum that if he does not come up with something within next couple of months, state would cancel his alchemist license and withdraw his monthly stipend and other privileges. So far so good! Ed and Al have a good time with the cute little girl and the playful dog, empathize with the family's troubles and eventually bid farewell. They return after a few months to find the alchemist has suddenly turned hostile. It seems he has finally managed to effect a transmutation that helps him retain his office. He shows them a dog like creature that can talk. The creature however looks gloomy depressed and strangely familiar. The alchemist does not allow them to meet his daughter and turns them away from his door. On probing further, Ed and Al discover that he has created what is called a chimera by fusing his daughter and his dog. They newly created creature has some memories of the girl and some of the dog but is not really the girl or the dog. It is soulless and without an identity and hence depressed. I found it so unexpected and so shocking – it haunted me for days. We also come to know that the alchemist had created the talking parrot a decade earlier by doing the same to his wife.
While the series has lot of depth and there is lot of darkness being portrayed, it is not all sinister either. The brothers have their humorous side too that brings comic relief. Overall it is in an intriguing story line with a well-developed and interesting premise. The story proceeds at a gripping pace and can easily keep viewer riveted for 52 episodes. Apparently the storyline is different in the manga but I have still not had the opportunity to check that out. But I am quite impressed with the anime version itself and would definitely recommend it to the hardcore science fiction and fantasy lovers.
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C Suresh 29 July 2014 at 09:34
I think that THAT story has been discussed by us before. This one seems to be quite interesting, though my interest in dark tales is not too high.
Yeah - I know, Suresh. But I guess most serious science fiction and fantasy have their dark side. This is at least black and white to some extent compared to Songs of Ice and Fire - I think you will not have too much problem relating to the character of Ed & Al- mainly driven by emotions of love for their mother and each other.
Seeta 29 July 2014 at 16:22
How do you come across all of these series? While I agree with Suresh on the dark part, I like the thought that has gone into creating these characters. That in itself s amazing
I actually had opportunity to meet Anime enthusiasts during MBA and exchange who recommended series to me and then I began to find them myself by looking for reviews. About this seies - though this series has darkness, the story line is intriguing.
Interesting, but I liked the previous one's story line better.
Yeah - that was a simple children's take. This is a bit too dark.
Jayashree Srivatsan 30 July 2014 at 20:20
I seem to have read about this somewhere. The story of the man doing strange things to his family !
Yeah, Jaish - I mentioned this when discussing horror in Indifiction workship;.


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HephaestusHephaestus, Greek Hephaistos, in Greek mythology, the god of fire. Originally a deity of Asia Minor and the adjoining islands (in particular Lemnos), Hephaestus had an important place of worship at the Lycian Olympus.
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Gallery. Hestia (ヘスティア) is a Goddess and head of the Hestia Familia, the love interest of Bell Cranel, and the deuteragonist in Is It Wrong To Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?. She is voiced in Japanese by Minase Inori who also voiced Nagisa Aizawa and in English by Luci Christian.
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Retiring from the Olympian Council Hestia gave up her Olympian throne to make way for Dionysus, Zeus' son. She then tended mostly to the Olympian hearth in the center of the room. And she was killed in 200 B.C.
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Hestia (Japanese: ヘスティア, Hepburn: Hesutia) is a fictional character who appears in Fujino Ōmori's light novel series Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? (shortened to DanMachi based on its Japanese title), and its manga and anime adaptations.
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DionysusShe was one of the three virgin goddesses and originally one of the Olympian Twelve, but she gave up her throne to Dionysus when he came to claim his place in Olympus.
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Zeus then waged a war against his father with his disgorged brothers and sisters as allies: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, and Poseidon. … Fighting on the other side allied with Cronus were the other Titans with the important exception of Themis and her son Prometheus who allied with Zeus.
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Q: How to update a Toast from an async task on onProgressUpdate without FREEZING the view? I'm trying to update a toast on downloading files which are done really quickly (a few ms)... So as I have to update the view, and so the toast, on the main thread, it freezes the view.
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Q: JavaScript clock reloads to its own page? I am trying to add a clock to my website with JavaScript, but I have a problem. The HTML page with my script in it will load and display everything in HTML, but about 1 second later will reload and only display the output of the JavaScript (only display the clock).
Here is my code:
window.onload = setInterval(clock, 1000);
var time = document.getElementById('TIME');

function clock() {
  var date = new Date();
  var localtime = date.toString();
  var hours = date.getHours();
  var minutes = date.getMinutes();
  var seconds = date.getSeconds();
  document.open("text/html", "replace");
  document.write("Time: " + hours + ":" + minutes + ":" + seconds);
}

It would go from this: Displays everything in HTML file
To displaying JUST THIS: "Time: 15:16:56"
I have no idea what I did wrong and it would be awesome if I can get some help. (I am just learning how to use JavaScript)

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    window.onload = setInterval(clock, 1000);
    var time = document.getElementById('TIME');
    function clock() {
      var date = new Date();
      var localtime = date.toString();
      var hours = date.getHours();
      var minutes = date.getMinutes();
      var seconds = date.getSeconds();
      time.innerHTML = "Time: " + hours + ":" + minutes + ":" + seconds;
    }

A: It's because you're using document.open(...). That reloads the page.
You should just do this:
time.innerHTML = "Time: " + hours + ":" + minutes + ":" + seconds;

instead of
document.open("text/html", "replace");
document.write("Time: " + hours + ":" + minutes + ":" + seconds);

UPDATE:
I just saw I made a typo. This code works (on codepen):

window.onload = setInterval(clock, 1000);
var time = document.getElementById('TIME');

function clock() {
  var date = new Date();
  var localtime = date.toString();
  var hours = date.getHours();
  var minutes = date.getMinutes();
  var seconds = date.getSeconds();
  time.innerHTML = "Time: " + hours + ":" + minutes + ":" + seconds;
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Q: Unable to enter User name and password in IE 11 using selenium webdriver I wanted to pass user name and password to a URL using Selenium
I tried the below logic
1) Pass username and password in the URL ie) http://Uname:pwd@url.com
2) Using alert and setAuthenticationCredentials
In the first approach the url is not getting redirected. Browser is initiated and that's it.
In the second approach, the login popup is displayed. But its not entering the username and password. When I run the script in debug mode, the code is not reaching driver.switchto().alert();
In the gotoURL only its struck.
I am using IE11 in Windows 10
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A: Referring to your first option, namely passing the credentials in the URL, this blog post provides a way forward:
https://blog.ham1.co.uk/2016/03/05/selenium-allow-basic-auth-in-ie11/

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*You need to create the following nodes in the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_HTTP_USERNAME_PASSWORD_DISABLE
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer\MAIN\FeatureControl\FEATURE_HTTP_USERNAME_PASSWORD_DISABLE
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_HTTP_USERNAME_PASSWORD_DISABLE

*Create keys for "iexplore.exe" and "explorer.exe"

*And set both to a DWORD with a value of 0

it is definitely the second prize for me, it deviates from the way an actual user would have interacted with the site under test.
I have also found out that the Basic Authentication method is no longer supported by the Webdriver, it will not work on Java at all. It still works on .net, but only on Win7-8.1.


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Hiroh Kikai nebo Hiro'o Kikai (鬼海 弘雄, Kikai Hiroo, 18. března 1945 – 19. října 2020) byl japonský fotograf nejznámější v Japonsku čtyřmi sériemi černobílých fotografií: scénami budov v Tokiu a v jeho blízkosti, portréty lidí v tokijské oblasti Asakusa a fotografiemi venkovského a městského života v Indii a Turecku. Každý z nich sledoval více než dvě desetiletí a každé vedlo k jedné nebo více sbírkám vydaných v knižní podobě.

Ačkoli byl dříve uznávanou osobností v japonské fotografii, na světě byl Kikai skoro neznámý až do roku 2004, kdy vyšlo první vydání jeho knihy Persona, sbírka portrétů Asakusy, která získala Cenu Kena Domona i Výroční cenu Japonské fotografické společnosti. V roce 2009 se spolupodílei ICP a Steidl na vydání knížky Asakusa Portraits pro mezinárodní trh.

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Kikai se narodil ve vesnici Daigo (nyní součást Sagae v prefektuře Jamagata) 18. března 1945 jako sedmé a poslední dítě (a pátý syn) rodiny. Měl šťastné dětství, od jedenácti let si rád hrál sám v přírodě obklopující vesnici. V roce 1963 dostudoval střední školu, rok pracoval v Jamagatě a poté odešel studovat filozofii na Hosei University v Tokiu. Jako student měl velký zájem o kino – obzvlášť se mu líbily filmy Andrzeje Wajdy, který později přispěl eseji do několika jeho knih, a Sajádžita Ráje – a řekl, že by pracoval ve filmové produkci, pokud by nemusel psát scénáře, což ho nikdy nebavilo, a nebyly nutné peníze, které mu chyběly.

Ihned po ukončení studia v roce 1968 pracoval Kikai dva roky jako řidič kamionu a dva roky v loděnici. Mezitím zůstal v kontaktu se svým profesorem filozofie z univerzitních dob Sadayoši Fukudou, jehož zájmy se rozšířily i na psaní pravidelné rubriky pro časopis Camera Mainiči; představil Kikaie jeho redaktorovi, Šojimu Jamagišiovi, který mu ukázal fotografie Diany Arbusové, které na Kikaie velmi zapůsobily. Kikai začal fotografovat v roce 1969. V té době (kdy obvyklý měsíční plat čerstvého absolventa univerzity byl asi 40 000 jenů za měsíc) stála zrcadlovka Hasselblad běžně 600 000 jenů; Kikai slyšel o příležitosti koupit jeden přístroj za 320 000 ¥ a zmínil se o tom Fukudovi, který mu okamžitě půjčil peníze, bez úroků, bez data a tlaku na splacení. (Půjčka byla nakonec splacena.) Tento Hasselblad 500CM, s 80 mm objektivem, bylo to, co Kikai poté používal na své portréty.

Kariéra
Kikai si myslel, že práce na lodi může být fotogenická, ale bez zkušeností nemohl získat práci. Nakonec byl přijat na loď lovící tuňáky, když ukázal jizvu z nepotřebné apendektomie. Pracoval na lodi v Pacifiku od 6. dubna do 9. listopadu 1972, se zastávkou v Manzanillo (Mexiko) pro zajištění zásob. To bylo během této doby že pořídil své první fotografie, které byly zveřejněny v květnu 1973 ve vydání Camera Mainiči. V roce 1973 získal cenu za účast na 14. výstavě Japonské asociace fotografických reklam. Kikai se však rozhodl, aby mohl být kvalitním fotografem, potřebuje zdokonalit své dovednosti v temné komoře, a vrátil se do Tokia, aby pracoval v Doi Technical Photo (1973–1976). Fotografem na volné noze se stal v roce 1984, rok po své první samostatné výstavě a ve stejném roce uspořádal výstavu druhou.

Kikai, který žil poblíž chrámu Asakusy (prefektura Tokio), tam často chodil ve volných dnech a fotografoval návštěvníky. Své návštěvy zintenzivnil v roce 1985; byla zde publikována řada sbírek jeho portrétů.

Mezi další autorovy dlouhodobé fotografické projekty patří pracovní a rezidenční čtvrti v Tokiu a okolí a lidé a scény v Indii a Turecku. Všechny tyto fotografie jsou v černobílém provedení. Jeho občasné odbočky však zahrnovaly barevné fotografie ostrovů Gotó a dokonce i akty.

Neobvykle v Japonsku, kde se fotografové obvykle sdružují nebo vytvářejí skupiny, Kikai nikdy nebyl v žádné skupině, raději pracoval sám. Fotografování své vlastní rodiny přenechal své manželce Noriko a právě ona měla fotoaparát, když šli společně na výlet.

Na začátku své kariéry si Kikai často musel vydělávat peníze jinými způsoby: po třech letech práce v temné komoře se vrátil k manuální práci.

Kikai nějakou dobu učil na Musašino Art University, ale byl zklamaný nedostatkem vytrvalého úsilí studentů, a proto s lektorováním skončil.

Kikai zemřel na lymfom dne 19. října 2020.

Asakusa portraits
Kikai zahájil sérii čtvercových černobílých portrétů Asakusa již v roce 1973, ale poté nastala přestávka až do roku 1985, kdy si uvědomil, že ideální kulisou budou prosté červené stěny Sensó-ji. V té době velká většina jeho portrétů přijala další omezení: jediný objekt stojí přímo před kamerou (původně Minolta Autocord TLR, později Hasselblad), dívá se přímo na něj a je zobrazen od kolen nahoru. Kikai mohl čekat v chrámu čtyři nebo pět hodin v naději, že uvidí někoho, koho chtěl vyfotografovat, a mohly uběhnout tři nebo čtyři dny bez jediné fotografie; ale také se stalo, že vyfotografoval i tři lidi za jediný den a tímto způsobem vyfotografoval přes šest set lidí. Věřil, že mít prostou kulisu a přímou konfrontaci s tématem umožňuje divákovi vidět subjekt jako celek a jako někoho, na kom se podepsal čas, bez jakýchkoli rušivých nebo omezujících konkrétností.

Ačkoli Kikai začal fotografovat v Asakuse jednoduše proto, že nedaleko chrámu žil, pokračoval kvůli povaze místa a jeho návštěvníkům. Asakusa, kdysi rušná a módní oblast, už dávno ztratila tento status. Kdyby bylo tak populární a přeplněné jako před válkou, šel by někam jinam, prohlásil Kikai.

V roce 1987 publikoval Ōtachi no shózó / Ecce Homo, první sbírku těchto portrétů. Jedná se o velkoformátovou knihu s portréty vytvořenými v Asakuse v letech 1985 až 1986. Kikai získal za tuto knihu Cenu Japonské fotografické společnost (PSJ) z roku 1988 a třetí cenu Nobua Iny za doprovodnou výstavu.

V roce 1995 byla v Tokiu / City of Photos představena řada portrétů ze série společně s pracemi jedenácti dalších fotografů, jedné z dvojice úvodních výstav Tokijského metropolitního muzea fotografie.

Ya-Chimata, publikovaný o rok později, má větší počet portrétů levněji vytištěných na menších stránkách.

Persona (2003) je další sbírka portrétů vytvořených v Asakuse. Několik z nich pochází z Kikaiho nejranějšího díla, ale většina portrétů z dřívějších knih byla postdatována. Několik předmětů se objevuje dvakrát nebo častěji, takže čtenář vidí účinek času. Formát knihy je neobvykle velký pro sbírku fotografií v Japonsku a desky byly vytištěny ve čtvercovém formátu. Kniha získala 23. cenu Domona Kena a výroční cenu PSJ za rok 2004. O dva roky později následovalo vydání v menším formátu s dalšími fotografiemi.

Asakusa Portraits (2008) je velká sbírka vydaná Mezinárodním střediskem fotografie (New York), publikovaná v souvislosti s výstavou ICP o nedávné historii japonské fotografii a umění Heavy Light. Kikaiho příspěvek na tuto výstavu byl dobře přijat a Asakusa Portraits získala chválu za jeho fotografii a také (od Paula Smitha) za lidovou módu fotografovaných.

Portraits of spaces
Kikai prohlásil, že lidé a scenérie jsou dvě strany stejné mince. Když ho unavilo čekat (nebo fotografovat) v Asakuse, nachodil pěšky i dvacet kilometrů hledat zajímavé městské scény, kde by mohl vytvářet "portréty prostorů". Denní procházka mohla trvat dvě nebo tři hodiny po dobu kratší než jedna role filmu 120. Obvykle fotografoval mezi desátou dopoledne a třetí  odpoledne a vyhýbal se době, kdy byli lidé venku, protože jejich přítomnost by přeměnila fotografie na pouhé snímky, snadno pochopitelné; i bez lidí jsou to obrazy nebo odrazy života. Kikai hledal scénu, kterou chtěl vyfotografovat, a pak tam vyčkával a fotografoval teprve tehdy, když se v záběru objevilo něco neočekávaného. Po vyvolání filmu se neobtěžoval s kontaktními tisky, místo toho posuzoval fotografii pouze podle negativu.

Ukázky z této série se objevily v různých časopisech přinejmenším již v roce 1976. Každá fotografie byla jednoduše opatřena titulkem s přibližnou adresou (v japonštině) a rokem pořízení.

Tókyó meiro / Tokijský labyrint (1999) představuje portréty prostor bez lidí v Tokiu (a příležitostně v přilehlém městě Kawasaki). Existují jednotlivé výklady, řady obchodů a rezidenční ulice. Většina budov je nenáročná. Stejně jako série Asakusa jsou tyto portréty černobílé a čtvercové, pořízené standardním objektivem na 120 mm filmu.

Tókyó mutan / Labyrinthos (2007) – na základě eseje / fotografické série, která probíhala v měsíčníku Sóshi (草思) od března 2004 do července 2005 a poté v internetové sérii "Tokio Polka". Mezi jediným aktem ve výloze v prodejně z roku 1978 a mladým chlapcem vyfotografovaným v prosinci 2006 (a který je podobný portrétům z Persony), jsou čtvercové monochromatické pohledy na Tokio a Kawasaki, kompozice, které se zdají ležérní a poněkud neuspořádané, většinou neotevřených scén vykazujících známky intenzivního a nedávného použití. Kniha obsahuje také Kikaiho eseje z "Tokijské polky", eseje, které se zabývají obyvateli Tokia pozorovanými při procházkách nebo ve vlaku.

Tokyo View (2016) je velkoformátová sbírka, většinou fotografií, které se také objevují v jedné nebo druhé z dřívějších knih (nebo Tókyó pótoreito / Tokyo Portraits).

Kikai prohlásil, že odchod do Indie se cítil jako návrat k Jamagatě jeho mládí a osvobození od života v Tokiu. Jeho fotografie byla mnohem méně plánovaná nebo formální než jeho portréty lidí nebo míst v Tokiu: po brzkém začátku s barevným 120 mm filmem použil černobílý 35mm film v Indii – a se smíchem řekl, že použije 35 mm v Tokiu, pokud by bylo město zajímavější a nedělal by z něj nešťastný pocit.

Indie, velkoformátová kniha vydaná v roce 1992, představuje fotografie pořízené v Indii (a v mnohem menší míře v Bangladéši) za období delší než jeden rok a sahající od roku 1982 do roku 1990. Knížka získala velkou chválu od kritika Kazuo Nishii, který uvedl, že Kikaiho Indie se zdá být neustále zatažená a že se zdá, že jeho fotografie ve své nejednoznačnosti těží z práce provedené v portrétové sérii Asakusa. Kniha získala v roce 1993 cenu Kikai Society of Photography Award.

Shiawase / Shanti (2001) je sbírka fotografií zaměřených na děti, z nichž většina byla pořízena v Allahabadu, Benaresu, Kalkatě, Puri a Dillí v roce 2000. Série vyhrála Grand Prix druhého festivalu Photo City Sagamihara Festival.

Turecko
Autor chtěl prozkoumat krajiny, kde by na rozdíl od Indie byla zima, a také muslimské vyznání, kde se setkávají asijské a evropské kultury. V roce 1994 Kikai uskutečnil první ze šesti návštěv v Turecku, kde pobýval celkem devět měsíců. Jeho černobílé fotografie Turecka se objevily v časopise Asahi Camera a jeho barevné fotografie na jeho internetových stránkách před vydáním jeho velké knihy Anatolia, kompilace jeho černobílých děl v lednu 2011.

Fotografie ve světě
Kikai byl jedním ze třinácti japonských fotografů pozvaných na festival EU – Japan Fest k fotografování dvaceti šesti národů Evropské unie ; v září 2005 strávil jednadvacet dní na Maltě a v říjnu 2004 krátké období v Portugalsku, kde často cestoval po obou zemích. Barevně jsou tyto fotografie odklonem od jeho dřívější práce. Většinou jde o víceméně upřímné fotografie lidí. Sbírka byla vydána jako osmý v sérii čtrnácti svazků, In-between.

V Asahi Camera se objevily série barevných fotografií z krátkých návštěv na Kubě (2007) a na Tchaj-wanu (2013) .

Eseje
Kikaiho eseje se objevily v periodikách a v některých jeho vlastních fotoknihách. Byly také shromážděny ve čtyřech knihách, ve kterých jsou ilustrovány reprodukcemi příslušných fotografií.

Indo ya Gassan ("Indie a Gassan", 1999) je sbírka esejů a fotografií z Indie. Gassan je hora uprostřed Jamagaty poblíž místa, kde byl vychován Kikai; Kikai uvažuje o Indii a porovnává ji s Jamagatou svého mládí.

Me to kaze no kioku ("Memories of the eye and the wind", 2012) je sbírka esejí publikovaná v Yamagata Shinbun od roku 2006; Dare omo sukoshi suki ni naru hi: Memekuri bóbiroku ("Days when you come to like anyone a little: An image-turning aide-memoire", 2015) je sbírka esejí publikovaná v Bungakukai (文學界) od roku 2011; Kutsuzoku no herikata ("Ways to wear down shoe rubber", 2016) je čtvrtou kolekcí.

Výstavy
Doplňkové anglické názvy v závorkách jsou nepřesné překlady pro tento článek; ve své době byly použity ty názvy, které jsou mimo závorky a uvozovky.

 [A] : Asakusa portraits
 [I] : Indie
 [S] : Portraits of spaces
 [T] : Turecko

Vybrané skupinové výstavy

 Nagi: Machinaka no kókei (Calm: Town scenes). [S] Konishiroku Photo Gallery (Šindžuku, Tokio), srpen – září 1983.
 Indo kikó (India travelogue). [I] Doi Photo Plaza Shibuya (Šibuja, Tokyo), srpen 1984; Art Plaza (Fukuoka), 1984; Gallery Antomeru (Sendai), 1984; Jamagata, 1984.
 Ōtachi no shózó (Sensóji keidai) (Portraits of kings [in the grounds of Sensó-ji]). [A] Ginza Nikon Salon (Ginza, Tokyo), 1988.
 Dai-13 Ina Nobuo shó jushó sakuhinten: Kikai Hiroo 'Ōtachi no shózó (Sensóji keidai)'  (Exhibition of works winning the 13th Ina Nobuo Award: Hiroh Kikai, Portraits of kings [in the grounds of Sensó-ji]). [A] Ginza Nikon Salon (Ginza, Tokyo); Osaka; Kyoto; etc., 1988–89.
 The Hitachi Collection of Contemporary Japanese Photography, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona. 1989.
 Dai-13-kai Ina Nobuo shó jushó sakuhinten: Kikai Hiroo 'Kanshó: Machi no katachi'  (Exhibition of works winning the 13th Ina Nobuo Award: Hiroh Kikai, Meditation: Town shapes). [S] Osaka Nikon Salon, únor 1990; Ginza Nikon Salon (Ginza, Tokyo), březen 1990; Kyoto; etc., 1990.
 Ecce Homo. [A] Robert Koch Gallery (San Francisco), 1993.
 Indo kikó (India travelogue). [I] Shómeidó Gallery (Kodaira), 1998.
 Persona (1). [A] Centrum Sztuki i Techniki Japońskiej Manggha (Krakov), 1999.
 Shashin to insatsu hyógen (Photographs and printing expression). [S] Mitsumura Art Plaza (Ōsaki, Tokyo), únor–březen 2000.
 Persona (2). [A] Centrum Sztuki i Techniki Japońskiej Manggha (Krakov), listopad–prosinec 2002.
 Persona. [A] The Third Gallery Aya (Osaka), říjen 2003.
 Persona. [A] Domon Ken Photography Museum (Sakata), září–listopad 2004.
 Persona. [A] Ginza Nikon Salon (Tokyo); Osaka, 2004.
 Persona. [A] Galeria Fotografii PF, Centrum Kultury Zamek (Poznaň), únor–březen 2005.
 Persona. [A] Shómeidó Gallery (Kodaira) leden 2005.
 Perusona [A] Ginza Nikon Salon (Ginza, Tokyo), únor–březen 2006; Osaka Nikon Salon (Osaka), duben 2006.
 Tókyó mutan [S] Ginza Nikon Salon (Ginza, Tokyo), září 2007; Osaka Nikon Salon (Osaka), říjen 2007.
 Tokyo Labyrinth. [S] Yancey Richardson Gallery (New York City), září–říjen 2008.
 Jinsei gekijó (Human theatre). [A] Gallery Raku, Kyoto University of Art and Design, Kyoto, březen 2009.
 Persona. [A] Yancey Richardson Gallery (New York City), květen–červenec 2009.
 Asakusai portrék. [A] Liget Gallery (Budapešť), listopad–prosinec 2010.
 Anatoria e no purosesu [T] Aoyama Book Center (Omotesandó, Tokyo), leden 2011.
 Tókyó pótoreito Tokyo portraits. [A, S] Tokijské metropolitní muzeum fotografie (Ebisu, Tokio), srpen–říjen 2011.
 Anatoria [T] M2 (Šindžuku, Tokio), srpen 2011.
 Persona. [A, S, I, T] Yamagata Museum of Art (Jamagata), prosinec 2011 – leden 2012.
 Tokyo Labyrinth. [S] Zen Foto Gallery (Roppongi, Tokio), květen 2013.
 Persona / Perusona [A] 14th Documentary Photo Festival Miyazaki, Miyazaki Prefectural Art Museum, srpen–září 2013.
 Asakusa Portraits (1973–2008) et India (1982–2008). [A, I] In between Gallery (Paris), listopad 2013.
 India 1982–2011. [I] Canon Gallery S (Šinagawa, Tokio), květen–červen 2014.
 Retratos de Asakusa. [A] Promoción del Arte (Madrid), září–listopad 2014.
 India 1982–2011. [I] The Museum of Art, Ehime (Macujama), září–říjen 2014.
 Tókyó: voyage à Asakusa. [A, S] Société d'encouragement pour l'industrie nationale, Paříž 6. října 2015.
 India 1979–2016 [I] Fujifilm Photo Salon (Tokio), květen – červen 2017.
 《人物》鬼海弘雄的肖像摄影. [A] See+ Art Space / Gallery (Beijing), prosinec 2017 – únor 2018.
 Persona. [A] Photo Gallery Blue Hole (Katagami, Akita), srpen 2018 – leden 2019.
 Persona. [A] Kihoku town office Kihoku, Ehime, únor 2019.
 Persona. [A] Sagae City Museum of Art, Sagae, Jamagata, duben-červen 2019.
 Persona: The Final Chapter / Persona saishūshó [A] Irie Taikichi Memorial Museum of Photography Nara City, září–říjen 2019.
 Persona: The Final Chapter [A] In between Gallery (Paříž), listopad–prosinec 2019.
 Ōtachi no shózó Portraits of kings). [A] (Tokio), červen–srpen 2020.

 Hitachi Collection of Contemporary Japanese Photography. Centrum kreativní fotografie, University of Arizona, 1988.
 Nyū dokyumentsu 1990 (ニュー・ドキュメンツ 1990) / Nové dokumenty 1990. Museum of Modern Art, Toyama (Toyama), 1990.
 Šašin toši Tókió (写真都市Tokyo) / Tokio / město fotografií. [A] (Dalšími vystavovanými fotografy byli Takanobu Hayashi, Ryūji Miyamoto, Daidó Morijama, Šigeiči Nagano, Ikkó Narahara, Micugu Óniši, Masato Seto, Issei Suda, Akihide Tamura, Tokuko Ušioda a Hiroši Jamazaki.) Metropolitní muzeum fotografie v Tokiu, 1995.
 Shashin wa nani o katareru ka (写真は何を語れるか。What can photographs say?). [I] Tokijské metropolitní muzeum fotografie, červen; Osaka Umeda Canon Salon, červenec; Salon Canon Fukuoka, srpen; Salon Canon Nagoja, září; Salon Canon Sapporo, říjen; Salon Sendai Canon, listopad 1997.
 Berlín – Tokio. Nová Národní galerie, Berlín, 2006.
 Tókyó meiro / Andesu Kuero (東京迷路・アンデスケロ村) / Tokijský labyrint / Andes Qero. [S] (Společně s Yoshiharuem Sekinoem, který vystavoval fotografie pořízené v komunitě Q'ero v Peru.) Galerie Šómeidó (Kodaira), červenec 2007.
 Heavy Light: Nedávná fotografie a video z Japonska. [A] Mezinárodní fotografické centrum (New York), květen – září 2008.
 Sanderovy děti. [A] Danziger Projects, New York, 2008.
 Mit anderen Augen. Das Porträt in der zeitgenössischen Fotografie = S jinými očima: Portrét v současné fotografii. [A] Die Photografische Sammlung / SK Stiftung Kultur, Kolín nad Rýnem, 26. února – 29. května 2016; Kunstmuseum Bonn, 25. února – 8. května 2016.
 Tváře z míst. [A] L. Parker Stephenson Photographs, Manhattan, 6. května – 16. července 2016. S Mike Disfarmerem, Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, J. a D. 'Okhai Ojeikere, Malick Sidibé a Jacques Sonck.

Stálé sbírky
 Tokijské metropolitní muzeum fotografie: 17 fotografií ze série Ótači no šózó (později známé jako Asakusa portraits nebo Asakusa), 1985–1986.
 Muzeum moderního umění, Tojama (Japonsko)
 Muzeum fotografie Domona Kena (Sakata, Jamagata, Japonsko)
 Nová Národní galerie (Berlín)
 Centrum kreativní fotografie (University of Arizona, Tucson)
 Hood Museum of Art (Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire)
 Muzeum umění Houston (Texas)
 Muzeum Mezinárodního centra fotografie (New York)
 Muzeum umění (Amherst College, Amherst, MA)
 Muzeum umění ve Filadelfii (Pensylvánie)

Publikace

Kikaiovy knihy
 Ōtachi no shózó: Sensó-ji keidai (Ecce homo: Portraits of kings. Yokohama: Yatate, 1987. Sbírka fotografií, titulky japonsky a anglicky, esej: Sadayoshi Fukuda. Obsahuje 41 černobílých tisků.
 India. Tokyo: Misuzu Shobó, 1992. . Sbírka fotografií, text (Kikai a Munesuke Mita) japonsky a anglicky, titulky anglicky. Obsahuje 106 černobílých tisků.
 Ya-Chimata: Ōtachi no kairó (Ya-Chimata: A gallery of kings). Tokyo: Misuzu Shobó, 1996. . Sbírka fotografií, text (Kikai a další) pouze japonsky. Obsahuje 183 černobílých tisků.
 Tókyó meiro (Tokyo Labyrinth. Tokyo: Shógakukan, 1999. . Sbírka fotografií, text (Andrzej Wajda, Genpei Akasegawa a Suehiro Tanemura) pouze japonsky. Obsahuje 108 černobílých tisků.
 Indo ya Gassan (India and Gassan). Tokyo: Hakusuisha, 1999. . Třicet esejí a čtyřicet jedna fotografií; text japonsky. Černobílé fotografie.
 Shiawase: Indo daichi no kodomo-tachi / Shanti: Children of India. Tokyo: Fukuinkan, 2001. . Sbírka fotografií (vše monochromatické): 13 fotografií na šířku přes dvě strany; a 94 na výšku. Text japonsky.
 Persona. Tokyo: Sóshisha, 2003. . Sbírka fotografií, texty (Andrzej Wajda, Suehiro Tanemura a Kikai) japonsky a anglicky.
 Perusona (Persona. Tokyo: Sóshisha, 2005. . Druhá, populární edice cyklu Persona z roku 2003 v menším formátu. Obsahuje přidané eseje a Kikaiovy fotografie; titulky japonsky a anglicky, další text pouze japonsky. Dvanáct tisků z prvního vydání a 191 tisků hlavní série je každý představen na samostatné stránce; mimo sérii obsahuje další tři fotografické tisky.
 In-between 8: Kikai Hiroo Porutogaru, Maruta / In-between, 8: Hiroh Kikai, Portugalsko, Malta. Tokyo: EU–Japan Fest Japan Committee, 2005. . Sbírka fotografií; text japonsky a anglicky. Obsahuje 28 barevných fotografií Portugalska a 27 Malty.
 Tókyó mutan / Labyrinthos. Tokyo: Sóshisha, 2007. . Sbírka 118 monochromatických fotografií a esejí; text a eseje jsou pouze japonsky.
 Asakusa Portraits. New York: International Center of Photography; Göttingen: Steidl, 2008. . Sbírka černobílých fotografií; titulky a text pouze anglicky. With an interview of Kikai by Noriko Fuku, eseje Kikai (přeloženo z cyklu Perusona), esej Asakusa: Hiromiči Hosoma.
 Anatoria / Anatolia. Tokyo: Crevis, 2011. . Sbírka 140 černobílých fotografií Turecka (nejen Anatolia). Předmluva: Toshiyuki Horie a Kikai.
 Tókyó pótoreito / Tokyo Portraits. Tokyo: Crevis, 2011. . Výstavní katalog více než 150 monochromatických fotografií cyklu "Asakusa portraits" a "Portraits of spaces". Doslov (Shinji Ishii, Iwao Matsuyama a Nobuyuki Okabe) pouze japonsky; kapitoly japonsky a anglicky.
 Me to kaze no kioku: Shashin o meguru esē. Tokyo: Iwanami, 2012. . Sbírka esejí.
 Seken no hito. Chikuma Bunko. Tokyo: Chikuma Shobó, 2014. . Antologie bunkobon k cyklu Asakusa portrait.
 Dare o mo sukoshi suki ni naru hi: Memekuri bóbiroku. Tokyo: Bungei shunjū, 2015. . Sbírka esejí.
 Naxie jianjian xihuan shang ren de rizi (那些渐渐喜欢上人的日子 视线所至备忘录). Hunan: 浦睿文化·湖南文艺出版社, 2019. . Překlad do čínštiny: 连子心.
 Tokyo View. Kyoto: Kazetabi-sha, 2016.  Velkoformátová sbírka 117 monochromatických fotografií ze série "portrétů prostorů". Titulky japonsky a anglicky; doslov: Hideki Maeda, pouze japonsky.
 Kutsuzoku no herikata. Tokyo: Chikumashobo, 2016. . Sbírka esejí, obsahuje 32 celostránkových tisků ze série "Portraits of spaces".
 India 1979–2016. Tokyo: Crevis, 2017. . Černobílé fotografie, obvykle jedna na stránku, text japonsky. Předmluva: Kikai a esej: Randy Taguchi; vše pouze japonsky.
 Persona saishūshó 2005–2018 / Persona: The Final Chapter, 2005–2018. Tokyo: Chikumashobo, 2019. . Celkem 205 černobílých fotografií, jedna na jedné stránce. Eseje: Kikai a Toshiyuki Horie; oboje japonsky a anglicky.
 Kotoba wo utsusu: Kikai Hiroo taidanshū, Portraying words: Hiroh Kikai interview collection). Tokyo: Heibonsha, 2019. . Rozhovory s Kikaiem vedli: Taichi Yamada, Nobuyoshi Araki, Toshiko Hirata, Shūsuke Michio, Randy Taguchi, Shigeru Aoki, Toshiyuki Horie a Natsuki Ikezawa; editor: Jun'ichiró Yamaoka.
 Shanti: Persona in India. Tokyo: Chikumashobo, 2019. . 168 otitulkovaných černobílých fotografií, jedna na jedné stránce, esej: Kikai a Shinji Ishii; oboje japonsky a anglicky.
 Ōtachi no shózó ("Portraits of kings"). JCII Photo Salon Library 346. Tokyo: JCII Photo Salon, 2020. Fotografie ze série později známé jako Asakusa portraits, 1973-1986; 22 fotografií, jedna na stránku.

Knihy s příspěvky Kikaie
 Shashin toshi Tókyó / Tokyo / City of Photos. Tokyo: Tokijské metropolitní muzeum fotografie, 1995. Výstavní katalog z roku 1995. Titulky a texty japonsky a anglicky.
 Literatura na świecie (Varšava, ISSN 0324-8305) č. 1–3, 2002. Speciální vydání japonské literatury Japonia, bylo ilustrováno Kikaiovými fotografiemi, pořízených na Ya-Chimata a Tókyó meiro / Tokyo Labyrinth. Text v polštině.
 Ueda Makoto. Shūgó jūtaku monogatari, The story of collective housing). Tokio: Misuzu, 2004. . Kniha o hromadném bydlení v Japonsku v budovách v Dójunkai, se 165 ilustrativními barevnými fotografiemi, vše Kikai. (Některé černobílé fotografie jsou starší a pocházejí od jiných fotografů.) Text: Makoto Ueda, pouze japonsky. Obsah byl v letech 1997–2001 publikovaný v magazínu Tokyojin.
 In-between: 13-nin no shashinka 25-kakoku / In-between: 13 photographers, 25 nations. (13 fotografů, 25 národů.) Tokio: EU–Japan Fest Japan Committee, 2005. . Kikai je jedním ze třinácti autorů v této doplňkové sbírce fotografií v šesti tématech ("Kameny a zdi", "Slova", atd...); text japonsky a anglicky.
 Miyako Harumi. Messēji / The Message. Tokyo: Juritsusha, 2006. . Kniha, jejíž polovinu tvoří citace z rozhovorů se zpěvačkou žánru enka Harumi Miyako a druhou polovinu barevné fotografie Kikaie. Fotografie nejsou popsány ani identifikovány; hrstka je z Mijaka, ale většina jsou výhledy na moře a provincie. (V mnoha případech jsou scény rozpoznatelné z oblasti Kumano západně od Kumanogawa v prefektuře Wakajama.) Text japonsky.
 Heavy Light: Recent Photography and Video from Japan. New York: International Center of Photography; Göttingen: Steidl, 2008. . Texty pouze anglicky.
 Higashi-Nihon dai-jishin: Shashinka 17-nin no shiten, Velké zemětřesení ve východním Japonsku: Perspektiva 17 fotografů). Speciální kompilace magazínu Asahi Camera. Tokio: Asahi Shinbunsha, 2011. . Sbírka fotografií následků zemětřesení a tsunami v Tóhoku 2011. Text pouze japonsky. Kikai přispěl šesti stranami: Sóma na počátku června a tři města v prefektuře Mijagi na konci srpna.
 Kikai Hiró and Jean-François Sabouret. Tókyó: voyage à Asakusa. Atlantique, Éditions de l'Actualité Scientifique Poitou-Charentes, 2015. . Úvod do Kikaiova díla, francouzsky a japonsky.
 Gabriele Conrath-Scholl a Stephan Berg, editoři, Mit anderen Augen. Das Porträt in der zeitgenössischen Fotografie = With Different Eyes: The Portrait in Contemporary Photography. Kolín: Snoeck, 2016. . Výstavní katalog.

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 Stránka kikaihiro.com doprovázející v roce 2015 pařížskou výstavu "Tókyó: voyage à Asakusa" (francouzsky a japonsky)
 "Hiroh Kikai " na stránkách Crevis.jp (クレヴィス).
 Fallis, Greg. "Hiroh Kikai". Sunday Salon. Utata Tribal Photography. (anglicky)
 Feustel, Marc. "Hiroh Kikai hovoří o fotografii". LensCulture. 2008. Rozhovor s deseti ilustračními fotografiemi (anglicky).
 Feustel, Marc. "Hiroh Kikai: A man in the cosmos". Eyecurious. 10. února 2010. Rozhovor s příklady fotografií (anglicky).
 "Hiroh Kikai". Studio Equis. Krátká biogrfie s řadou fotografií (anglicky).
 "Hiroh Kikai". Yancey Richardson Gallery (New York). Fotografie z cyklu "Persona" ("Asakusa Portraits").
 "Hiroh Kikai 'Asakusai portréi' " - "Rozhovor s Hiroh Kikaiem". Liget Gallery. Překlad rozsáhlého rozhovoru Kikaie s Noriko Fukuou (maďarsky a anglicky).
 Kikai Hiroh. "Yurari-yurayura-ki" (ゆらりゆらゆら記). Série esejí ilustrované fotografiemi (japonsky).
 "Kikai Hiroo", Shashin šika dekinai koto (写真しかできないこと), The Photographer 2007. Fujifilm. Příklady Kikaiova díla (japonsky).
 Mirapaul, Evan. "Musings from a Trip to Japan (III) Kikai." Fugitive Vision, 13. listopadu 2007. Mirapaul komentuje sérii Asakusa portrait (anglicky).
 Asakusa Portraits: Hiroh Kikai (PDF), Liget Galéria, Budapešť. Bohatě ilustrovaný návrh výstavy.

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As a writer and language teacher who has been living in South Korea for 15 years, North Korea's warped sense of proportion is only slightly more disappointing to me than their continued reliance on the "sea of fire" cliché, which has been so thoroughly abused that it's hard to recall a time before it was commonplace. The phrase first appeared in the inter-Korean dialogue in 1994, as nuclear anti-proliferation talks between North and South broke down. With the talks spiraling toward collapse, North Korea's lead negotiator, Park Young Su, in an apparently unscripted outburst, declared that "Seoul will be turned into a sea of fire" and stormed out of the conference room. Concise, memorable, and suggestive of apocalyptic wrath, Mr. Park's "sea of fire" immediately set the region on edge, but, for reasons we may never know, was considered inappropriate by North Korea's leader, Kim Il-sung, who had Park sacked a month later.
The ominous phrase faded from use, but was apparently deemed appropriate by Kim Jong-il in 1999, when North Korea threatened to turn both South Korea and the U.S. into a 'sea of fire' if attacked. Throughout the following decade, the phrase was hurled about with wanton disregard for both human life and lexical variety: in 2003, when they threatened Seoul with a "sea of fire" while unleashing a barrage of unflattering adjectives on the U.S.; in 2004, when they threatened Japan with an explicitly "nuclear" sea of fire; and a year later, when they threatened to preemptively strike U.S. military bases, turning them into seas of fire while "thoroughly" wiping out anyone who helped them (read: South Korea and Japan).
Perhaps aware of the need to mix it up a little, in 2008, the KCNA warned that "everything will be ashes, not just a sea of fire", which was encouraging but either contradictory or redundant, depending on how you read it. Later that year, Vice Marshall Kim Il-Chol threatened that a North Korean counterstrike would somehow be "unimaginably more powerful than nuclear weapons," and that it would "not merely turn everything into a sea of fire but reduce everything treacherous and anti-reunification to debris and build an independent reunified country on it." I don't even know what that means, but it sounds eerily like a Stalinist version of the Genesis device from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan – a large torpedo that instantly reduces a lifeless planet to subatomic particles, then quickly reassembles it to make it habitable for the North Korean Worker's Party.
Whatever he had in mind, the imaginative new threat was never elaborated, and North Korea was soon back to their old tricks. In 2010, when the South Korean military set up towers of loudspeakers at the border and repeatedly blared the song "Hit Your Heart" by the K-Pop group 4Minute, the North Koreans threatened to not only blow up the speakers (which is forgivable if you've heard the song) but to turn Seoul into a sea of you guessed it.
One noticeable change has however occurred under Kim Jong-un's tenure: rather than conjuring nuclear annihilation, 'sea of fire' is used more literally to describe limited attacks involving any sort of fire at all. Case in point: the aforementioned attack on Yeonpyoung Island, in which incendiary shells set fire to fields, trees and a couple dozen buildings. This November, they even threatened to turn individual structures, like the Blue House, into a sea of fire, which would only seem to require a lagoon of fire, or, if you're feeling generous, a bay. Maybe ambiguity is what they're going for, or maybe they're being lazy, but either way it screams rookie mistake. Here in Busan, a city more than 300 kilometers from the DMZ, nuclear missiles worry me. Artillery rounds? Not so much.
Your mother is such a sycophantic political dwarf that her remarks often reveal her utter ignorance of Juche ideology, to say nothing of her fitness for parenting tomorrow's revolutionary vanguard!
Is that so? Well your mother is such a half-baked philistine that she couldn't mercilessly wipe out an enemy bulwark if the Korean people's glorious victory depended on it!
While they do overuse stock terms to describe us Yankee "imperialists" and our South Korean "puppet" allies, the KCNA have also displayed an ability to stretch and flash their chops, especially during the "brigandish" (one of their favorite adjectives) administration of George W. Bush. The KCNA referred to the Bush team as "a bunch of tricksters and political imbeciles who are the center of a plot breeding fraud and swindle," and often called them out singly for verbal smackdowns. President Bush, who famously tarred North Korea as a member of an Axis of Evil, was described as a "hooligan bereft of any personality…a half-baked man in terms of morality and a philistine who can never be dealt with." When Bush had a shoe thrown at him by an Iraqi reporter in 2008, the KCNA waxed poetic, writing that Bush just stood there "like a chicken soaked in the rain." They landed some of their best zingers on his cabinet, calling Vice President Cheney a "mentally deranged person steeped in inveterate enmity towards the system [in North Korea]" and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld a "human butcher and fascist tyrant who puts an ogre to shame".
Despite the chutzpah of these KCNA broadsides, reading them you soon notice that they employ an inordinate number of antiquated words like "trickster" "stooge" and "lackey." According to Joo Sung-ha, who defected from North Korea and is now a journalist in South Korea, this is because they rely on dictionaries published in the 1960s and have few or no native speakers to proofread their diatribes. The result of this linguistic isolation is that North Koreans roll out our old verbiage in much the same way that Cubans deploy our old Plymouths, Buicks, and Chevys: keeping them in wide circulation despite a dearth of imported parts, polishing them to a surprising luster, and revving them up with obvious relish. OK – denouncing someone as a 'flunkey' might not achieve the same degree of cool as a Havana cabbie in a '52 Ford Victoria, but there's an oddball charm in the glimpse it offers of a bygone linguistic moment, painstakingly restored by those quirky curators of Cold War bombast.
Hold on to your sphincters, Korea.
Having seen their potential, it's disappointing to pick up the paper and read that we've once again been threatened by a "sea of fire", which now sounds more like an award-winning 5-alarm chili than code for Armageddon. Will KCNA broadcasts someday swear to turn Washington into a "moldering mound of marble" or transform everything below the DMZ into a "rat's nest of ruined rebar"? I don't know, but the status quo has got to go.


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Q: convert an integer number into an array I am trying to convert an integer number in C into an array containing each of that number's digits
i.e.  if I have
int number = 5400

how can I get to
int numberArray[4]

where
numberArray[0] = 0;
numberArray[1] = 0;
numberArray[2] = 4;
numberArray[3] = 5;

Any suggestions gratefully received.

A: You could calculate the number of digits in an integer with logarithm rather than a loop. Thus,
int * toArray(int number)
{
    int n = log10(number) + 1;
    int i;
    int *numberArray = calloc(n, sizeof(int));
    for ( i = 0; i < n; ++i, number /= 10 )
    {
        numberArray[i] = number % 10;
    }
    return numberArray;
}

A: Try this,
void initialise_array(int *a, int size, int num) {
    for (int i = 0; i < size; ++i, num /= 10)
        a[(size - 1) - i] = num % 10;
}

A: Hint: Take a look at this earlier question "Sum of digits in C#". It explains how to extract the digits in the number using several methods, some relevant in C.
From Greg Hewgill's answer:
/* count number of digits */
int c = 0; /* digit position */
int n = number;

while (n != 0)
{
    n /= 10;
    c++;
}

int numberArray[c];

c = 0;
n = number;

/* extract each digit */
while (n != 0)
{
    numberArray[c] = n % 10;
    n /= 10;
    c++;
}

A: This would work for numbers >= 0
#include <math.h>

char * convertNumberIntoArray(unsigned int number) {
    int length = (int)floor(log10((float)number)) + 1;
    char * arr = new char[length];
    int i = 0;
    do {
        arr[i] = number % 10;
        number /= 10;
        i++;
    } while (number != 0);
    return arr;
}

EDIT: Just a little bit more C style but more cryptic.
#include <math.h>

char * convertNumberIntoArray(unsigned int number) {
    unsigned int length = (int)(log10((float)number)) + 1;
    char * arr = (char *) malloc(length * sizeof(char)), * curr = arr;
    do {
        *curr++ = number % 10;
        number /= 10;
    } while (number != 0);
    return arr;
}

A: If you need to take negative numbers into account, you might need some extra logic.  In fact, when playing around with arrays you don't know the size of upfront, you may want to do some more safety checking, and adding an API for handling the structure of the data is quite handy too.
// returns the number of digits converted
// stores the digits in reverse order (smalles digit first)
// precondition: outputdigits is big enough to store all digits.
//
int convert( int number, int* outputdigits, int* signdigit ) {

  int* workingdigits = outputdigits;

  int sign = 1;
  if( number < 0 ) { *signdigit = -1; number *= -1; }
  ++workingdigits;

  for ( ; number > 0; ++ workingdigits ) {
    *workingdigits = number % 10;
    number = number / 10;
  }

  return workingdigits - outputdigits;
}

void printdigits( int* digits, int size, int signdigit ) {
  if( signdigit < 0 ) printf( "-" );

  for( int* digit = digits+size-1; digit >= digits; --digit ){
    printf( "%d", *digit );
  }
}

int main() {
   int digits[10];
   int signdigit;
   printdigits( digits, convert( 10, digits, &signdigit ), signdigit );
   printdigits( digits, convert( -10, digits, &signdigit ), signdigit );
   printdigits( digits, convert( 1005, digits, &signdigit ), signdigit );

}

A: #include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

int main(void)
{
  int i, inputNumber;
  char* charArray;

  printf("\nEnter number: ");
  scanf("%d", &inputNumber);

  /* converts int to print buffer which is char array */
  sprintf(charArray, "%d", inputNumber);
  int size = strlen(charArray);

  int intArray[size];

  for (i = 0; i < size; i++)
  {
    intArray[i] = charArray[i] - '0';
  }

  return 0;
}

A: C code:
/* one decimal digit takes a few more than 3 bits. (2^3=8, 2^4=16) */
int digits[(sizeof (int) * CHAR_BIT) / 3 + 1],
    *digitsp = digits;
do {
    *digitsp++ = number % 10;
    number /= 10;
} while(number > 0);

You will see how many digits you converted by taking the difference
digitsp - digits

If you want to put it into a function:
#define MIN_DIGITS_IN_INT ((sizeof (int) * CHAR_BIT) / 3 + 1)

int to_array(int number, int *digits) {
    int *digitsp = digits;
    do {
        *digitsp++ = number % 10;
        number /= 10;
    } while(number > 0);
    return digitsp - digits;
}

int main() {
    int number = rand();
    int digits[MIN_DIGITS_IN_INT];
    int n = to_array(number, digits);

    /* test whether we're right */
    while(n-- > 0)
        printf("%d", digits[n]);
    }
    printf(" = %d\n", number);
}

I prefer automatic arrays to dynamic memory allocation in this case, since it's easier to do it right and not leak accidentally.

A: using vadim's code, I came up with this test program:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <math.h>

char * convertNumberIntoArray(unsigned int number) {
    unsigned int length = (int)(log10((float)number)) + 1;
    char * arr = (char *) malloc(length * sizeof(char)), * curr = arr;
    do {
        *curr++ = number % 10;
        number /= 10;
    } while (number != 0);
    return arr;
}

int main(void)
{
    int InputNumber;
    int arr[5];

    printf("enter number: \n");
    scanf("%d", &InputNumber);

    convertNumberIntoArray(InputNumber);

    printf("The number components are: %d %d %d\n", arr[0],arr[1],arr[2]);

    system("PAUSE");
    return 0;
}

but the output is garbage.  Can anyone advise if I have done something stupid here?
/***** output *****/
enter number:
501
The number components are: 2009291924 2009145456 -1
Press any key to continue . . .

--dave


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Hamas Takes Cut from Gaza Corona 'Charity' Scammers
Online scammers who solicit money for "poor Gazans" are pocketing donations, but not before the Hamas terror group takes a cut.
By Yakir Benzion, United With Israel
Online charity scams in the Arabic speaking world are exploiting the plight of Gazans during the coronavirus pandemic. The scammers are paying a percentage to the neighborhood gang leader so to speak – Hamas terrorists who rule the coastal enclave with an iron fist.
A Hebrew-speaking anonymous Arabic blogger who calls himself "Abu Ali Express" runs a news channel on the Telegram app with over 47,000 subscribers, most of them Israelis. The blogger posts updates from the Arabic mainstream press and social media on the latest happenings in the Arab world, but with a focus on Palestinian areas including Gaza, and was featured on the Israellycool site.
Using pictures of destitute kids in Gaza, where unemployment under Hamas is well over 50 percent, scammers troll the internet posing as charities to raise money for the poor. In reality, they pocket the money and make huge profits.
Abu Ali Express, a play on the huge online Chinese retailer Ali Express, posted a tweet by a Gaza charity organization called Rahma, telling them to bring a child to be photographed as a prerequisite for receiving bread. "Supplying donors with photographs of poor Gaza children is an important part of the Gaza donations industry," he said.
The Palestinian Authority's official newspaper, Al Hayat al-Jadida, ran an expose about the scam last week, detailing Hamas' role.
While Hamas claims to be be a righteous Islamic group with charity as one of its pillars, it turns out the terrorists are letting the scams continue – so long as they get their cut.
Sources told Al Hayat al-Jadida that Hamas' internal security apparatus, in cooperation with money exchange offices in the Gaza Strip, knows every detail funds that enter Gaza. Hamas calls in anyone suspected of receiving large sums of money and is known to shake them down for a cut of the revenue.
The sources indicated that this "security measure" imposed by Hamas applies to all associations, institutions and charitable initiatives in Gaza. The body overseeing charities is supervised by Abu Osama al-Kurd, who happens to be a member of the political bureau of Hamas. His office ensures that all entities under its umbrella skim the correct percentage of aid, which is under Hamas' total control.
According to the Al Hayat al-Jadida report, Hamas requires anyone who works in this branch of "charity donations" to pay half of the money scammed either directly the Hamas movement or to groups affiliated with it.
Activist Ramzi Harazallah told the paper there has to be a way to let unsuspecting donors know their charity is not going to support the poor, but to line the pockets of Hamas terrorists. According to Harazallah, the first task is to "hold Hamas and its government accountable before holding individual scammers accountable. "
Palestinian journalist Muhammad Lalla commented on the electronic begging issue, saying it's clear that whoever collects donations of 200,000 dollars from abroad and spends only half of the amount on the poor in Gaza must be forbidden from doing so. Lalla calls the scammers "beggar thieves."
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I always thought she was so classy and pretty. I heard that she was killed in an auto accident on her way to see her grandchild being born. Does anyone know if that's true? Was she married to Steve or Terry Rosaaen?
Valerie died in a car crash march 15,1990. She was married to Terry Rosaaen and had three children (Meredith, Kelly and Lindsay). She was loved and missed by all.


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Man being assaulted in Crestline shoots attacker to death
The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department considers the shooter to be a victim who also had been assaulted in January.
Trona infrastructure improving, but more quake damage to property called likely
Aftershocks are causing buildings to settle into the sandy soil, and the movement is tearing apart homes.
Process of providing federal aid to quake victims begins with inspections Thursday
The assessments in the Ridgecrest and Trona areas could lead to a major disaster declaration from President Trump, which would free up money for grants and loans.
After homes burn and buckle, quake victims seek housing, financial help
Assistance from family and friends and low-interest loans are sought.
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As of Saturday, no major injuries or structure collapses were announced, according to state and local officials, and roads affected by splits or rock slides were repaired and reopened.
Cleanup from 6.4 quake in Ridgecrest continues, while scientists say aftershocks could last for years
Trona residents are urged to boil water used in cooking and drink bottled water through at least the weekend.
Owner of two damaged Ridgecrest businesses says his faith remains strong
"We don't have earthquake insurance. It's like throwing money in the trash," said Antoun Abdullatif.
In tight-knit Ridgecrest, a quake-related fire broke out and neighbors stepped up to help each other
"It's a tight-knit community. Everybody knows everybody," resident Tim Allman said.
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Yet another amazing book by Sophie Kinsella! Honestly, there's nothing not to like. I've Got Your Number is hands down my favorite book by Sophie Kinsella and now one of my favorite chick lits too! Kinsella's books introduced me to the Chick Lit genre so when I received an ARC of this book, I was literally jumping in joy!
Poppy Wyatt has lost the one thing she shouldn't have - her engagement ring. It's her fiance's family heirloom passed down for generations and it would be a very bad thing to have lost it, especially since her in-laws already don't like her very much.
To make matters worse, while she's looking for the ring, she gets mugged! Now she's ringless and phoneless and has basically given up all hope when by chance, she finds a phone (not hers) thrown in the trash. Obviously, unable to resist she picks up it up..and that's when the story begins.
After Rebecca Bloomwood, I think Poppy's the funniest among all of Kinsella's characters. The frequent references to Poirot had me laughing to myself so many times! This one is a little different from Kinsella's other books, she focuses a bit more on the romance than she usually does. Poppy Wyatt's strong but she doesn't realize it. She's special but she doesn't see it. Her fiance (His name is Magnus) belongs to family of brainiacs and Poppy doesn't fit in, she feels like she can't keep up with them and lies to feel like an equal. She's got a lot of insecurities and a compulsive need to be nice so people like her.
Ah seriously, Poppy's a character you'll appreciate and learn to love ladies!There's one scene in the woods.. God, I got butterflies in my stomach!
All I can say is, Chick Lit lovers and Kinsella fans, you won't be disappointed! I've Got Your Number is utterly charming, keeps you laughing and entertained while making you feel all warm and gooey inside! In my opinion, this book is made for Hollywood!
This sounds adorable. I've not read this genre, but it just sounds like too good a plot to ignore.
This sounds great. I do have to ask: is much of the book in text format or e-mails? I have enjoyed her books in the past and would like to read this one but have tired of other authors using this technique in their writing. Thanks for the review!
It's a normal book, parts of it include emails/texts but just very little.. most of it is a normal chick lit book. I loved it! Give it a shot :) There's a book called Goodnight Tweetheart which completely takes place in tweets. u might like that one if you're into that kind of writing!
I haven't read any of the shopaholic books but I have read Can You Keep a Secret? and her other stand alone books and loved them!
One of my favourite authors - an inspiration! Love this review Anjana, and I'm glad I stopped by!
OMG, I have always been a fan of Sophie Kinsella and I have been looking forward to reading this one! Remember Me? is my favorite of 'em all and I love how things go from normal to worse and worst in her books; she's hilarious! =D Great review!


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San Jose's 'Jungle': Former homeless encampment…
San Jose's 'Jungle': Former homeless encampment returns to nature
Crews tear down an elaborate shower used by the homeless inside the Jungle, as the notorious camp is closed on Dec. 4, 2014, in San Jose, Calif. Hundreds of homeless people were ordered out of their camps in the thickly-vegetated area. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)
By Mark Emmons | Mercury News, Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: July 9, 2015 at 8:16 am | UPDATED: June 20, 2017 at 3:53 pm
SAN JOSE — The sounds of chirping birds occasionally interrupted the deep quiet as three park rangers made their way through the thickening undergrowth. Pam Helmke bent down on the faint outline of a path and examined the green leaves of a small plant.
"This is a baby cottonwood coming up, and it probably would have been trampled growing here in the past," said Helmke, a city senior park ranger.
This urban wilderness area didn't always have the bucolic name of Coyote Meadows, but rather a more infamous moniker: the Jungle.
The site was a place of misery where perhaps the nation's largest homeless encampment, numbering as many as 300 people, once spread along a polluted Coyote Creek — a painful symbol of Silicon Valley's struggle to offer affordable housing in one of the richest places on Earth.
But in the seven months since the city closed the notorious makeshift village, a transformation has begun. Today, the Jungle looks more like a forest. Critters such as grey fox, possum and raccoons have been spotted where flimsy structures and tents previously stood amid mounds of rotting garbage. Vegetation has rebounded — including unfriendly poison oak.
"Nature is taking back what's hers," Helmke said.
She's had some help. Fencing and boulders were erected next to Story Road to discourage trespassers from coming back to the city-owned land. Rangers regularly patrol the area, breaking what had been an endless cycle of the vast encampment re-emerging after every cleanup.
Make no mistake: This site is not pristine. Trash still is visible in some places beneath new plant growth, and tires and other debris poke out of the drought-lowered creek. The hard-packed ground also is rutted from the heavy equipment that plowed through for the final sweep that came amid December rainstorms. And it's not uncommon for rangers to encounter a homeless person camping in an out-of-the-way spot.
City officials, though, believe a new leaf has been turned. And there are ambitious plans for fully restoring the 68 acres, including a hiking trail.
"It's an exciting part of the story," said Steve Hammack, the deputy director of the city's parks division. "Instead of having people living in terrible squalor, we're looking at the return of the birds and other wildlife. It's becoming the habitat that it should be. We're not there yet, but we're making progress."
There never was any disagreement that the Story Road encampment — which is what public officials resolutely called it instead of the Jungle — was unfit for human habitation and a site of incalculable environmental damage. The regional Water Quality Control Board even issued a stern directive to the city that the "direct discharge of human waste" was unacceptable.
Still, the Jungle's closure was a heartbreaking scene that made national headlines with its stark contrast of abject poverty amid high-tech wealth.
Housing was found for 175 people as part of a pilot project by the city. Yet when workers began removing more than 618 tons of trash on Dec. 4, many of the Jungle's remaining inhabitants tearfully spoke of having nowhere else to go. There also was some criticism among community members that closing the Jungle only dispersed the homeless into their neighborhoods.
But the hustle and bustle of the encampment now has been replaced with a more tranquil setting.
Helmke oversees the Watershed Protection Team, which is making sure it stays that way. The four-ranger group was created two years ago to patrol the waterway system in a partnership between the city and the Santa Clara Valley Water District. During a recent weekday morning, Helmke and rangers Jess Friedman and Wes Steen encountered a man who had dragged an ornate couch into the tree cover as part of a campsite.
"There seems to be a never-ending supply of couches in this city," Helmke said.
The rangers told the man he couldn't stay and gave him pamphlets for available social services. If homeless people don't leave, the rangers can begin the eviction process — posting 72-hour warning notices of when workers will come to sweep the location.
"You hear a lot of interesting stories when you meet people here," Friedman added. "They never seem to know that this was an encampment, and they never admit to being homeless. They're always here just waiting for a friend."
Santa Clara County has one of the country's largest homeless populations. But encouraging news came recently when a census, conducted about seven weeks after the Jungle was shut down, found the numbers had dropped 14 percent — to 6,556 — over the last two years. Also, there was a 37 percent decline in homeless people living in encampments. The count identified 778 people in roughly 200 encampments — mostly near Coyote and Los Gatos creeks and the Guadalupe River.
"There are still a lot of people living along our creeks, and we don't have the staff to monitor every part of it, all the time," said Ray Bramson, the city's homeless response manager. "But I can say that there are no permanent structures down on that site anymore."
Robert Aguirre lived 10 months at the Jungle and has become an activist who believes there should be a legal camping area for the homeless instead of sweeping them from location to location in what critics have compared to a sad version of the "Whac-A-Mole" arcade game.
"It's going to be a long time before the Jungle is restored," Aguirre said. "But I'm much more interested in repairing the people than the creek. Don't get me wrong, both are important. But people should come first, and now they've just been scattered all around the city."
Helmke, who has spent 28 years with the city rangers, said they sometimes are painted as villains because they're chasing out vulnerable people from meager campsites. But she said they much prefer to help get homeless people into housing.
"The goal shouldn't be moving people around," she said. "Faith-based groups look at our team like we're evil and we're prioritizing nature over people. But I've learned that you can't make it easy for people to make the wrong choice. If people are allowed to isolate themselves in a place like this, it's not helping them make the right choices."
Hammack said plans include extending the Coyote Creek Trail through the former encampment from Kelley Park to Selma Olinder Park. Restoring the stream bank, clearing out the waterway and planting more trees also is on the wish list.
"Very few things are short-term in this work," he said. "Accomplishments truly are long term. But it's a fantastic goal to think that 50 years down the road, we should have good stands of willows, maples and sycamores there."
Sometime after the final cleanup, the site started being called by its previous name: Coyote Meadows.
"It sounds better," Helmke said, "than what they used to call it."
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"Voici Le Temps Des Assassins", Original Release Japanese Movie Poster 1956, B2 Size
Andre Chatelin (Jean Gabin), proprietor of a Parisian restaurant, lost contact with his wife, Gabrielle (Lucienne Bogaert), almost two decades ago. He gets a visit from Catherine (Danièle Delorme), a young woman he has never met, who claims to be Gabrielle's daughter from another marriage. Catherine informs him of Gabrielle's death, and Andre takes the girl in, giving her work at the restaurant. But Andre soon learns that Catherine isn't who she says she is -- and she's dangerous, too.
Deadlier Than the Male is a 1956 film and this original poster is in excellent condition for its age. It is not a reproduction or reprint. It has minimal folds and no tears, this striking poster would make a great addition to your walls.
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This week, 'Escape to the Cotswolds', the discovery centre for the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) will open its doors for a third season.
The centre which is run by the Cotswolds Conservation Board, will build on its previous two years success in helping people discover the fascinating story of the Cotswolds.
Through a series of imaginatively designed information panels, visitors can learn about the history, geology, landscape, people and nature of the area as well as be inspired to explore the Cotswolds further using the extensive network of public rights of way including the popular Cotswold Way National Trail. This season, a number of activities will be taking place at the centre including taster days in blacksmithing, and a Jubilee themed treasure hunt. A number of maps, walking routes, guide books, souvenirs and refreshments are available for visitors to buy, plus there is a wide range of free local information.
The centre, open from April to October, Wednesdays to Saturdays, is housed in the 18th century Old Prison in Northleach and allows visitors easy access to view one of the original cell blocks, along with the Lloyd Baker Rural Life Collection. This unique collection is the largest publicly owned regional collection of agricultural 'bygones' in the country, which includes a range of beautifully crafted harvest wagons and carts.
A bid by local environmental charity, the Friends of the Cotswolds, to invest in and secure the future of the building is currently being evaluated by Cotswold District Council, following the launch of the Friends' fundraising campaign earlier this year. The campaign aims to build on the success of 'Escape', developing a centre of excellence for rural skills training and renewable energy demonstration, as well as significantly enhancing the range of interactive materials and exhibits for visitors to learn more about the AONB.
Escape to the Cotswolds is open from 4 April to 31 October, Wednesdays to Saturdays, 11am to 4pm.
The centre is situated on the A429 Fosse Way at Northleach.


Long has it been known that dermaplaning, or lightly shaving the surface of your face, holds the promise of smoother skin and a silkier feel. Bloggers, vloggers and fashion houses are full of guides and advice. All it takes is a quick google. But they are also full of the usual caveats, myth-busting and taboo trashing tips. Then rounding on the typically vanilla end-point ("make sure it's right for you") and the classic 'paid-for' product placements.
Hair grows on most of our bodies, including the faces of all of us. The really thin vellus hair is short, slight-coloured and barely noticeable hair, and the one that dermaplaning aims to remove. This, along with the tired old surface layer of skin.
The worry is that the delicate and visible skin on our faces isn't used to this kind of treatment, or that untrained people not used to shaving faces cause unintended damage.
Then there is no avoiding unwanted facial hair, particularly upper lip hair. What to do with this is of real concern to many seeking a hairless, natural look? For more on this topic, read our post on thicker upper lip hair.
Our three-stage shaving solution works to lightly exfoliate the surface layer, prepare and protect the skin from shaving, and then help repair and nourish the skin after face shaving. Whilst the aesthetic jury is out on removing vellus hair from faces, there is nothing better than clean, vibrant, hairless skin.
Whatever look you're after, and whatever skin and hair condition you're starting with, it's always really important to take things slow, try it on a small part of skin first, and check that you don't have any adverse affects. Always take care to prepare and protect your skin, and ensure the razor you use is sharp, clean and free from any gunk. For tips on pre, during and post shaving, read our 3 stage guide, and for advice on how to keep your razor sharp, take a look at our patent-pending Blaidmat.